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Genetic Mutations That Drive Evolutionary Rescue to Lethal Temperature in Escherichia coli.
Genome biology and evolution - 3 Nov 2020
Batarseh Tiffany N, Hug Shaun M, Batarseh Sarah N, Gaut Brandon S
Abstract excerpt
Evolutionary rescue occurs when adaptation restores population growth against a lethal stressor. Here, we studied evolutionary rescue by conducting experiments with Escherichia coli at the lethal temperature of 43.0 °C, to determine the adaptive mutations that drive rescue and to investigate their effects on fitness and gene expression. From hundreds of populations, we observed that ∼9% were rescued by genetic...
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